Tom Storm

Hoe gaat het met je? We hebben je gemist.

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A theist is simply a believer in god/s. It has nothing to do with practicing a religion. There was no 'nice try'. If it is not immediately evident to ...

It's like the Rosetta Stone of shit...

As an atheist, I hold the position that I have seen no reason to be convinced there is god/s - let alone people knowing what god/s want. So I am askin...

I have no theory on offer, but I have never assumed that time was anything much more than a human construct to help us make sense of and order our ver...

Yours or mine? :wink: Very close, but I do eat Vegemite so the poo is more like Koala's.

You can't make extravagant claims on a philosophy forum and expect for them to go unchecked. So you not only believe god/s are real, you claim to know...

Eating isn't the same as being 'into food'. :cool:

I hope not. I'm not into food so there'd be nothing in it for me. :wink:

I can't do anything about how you interpret others. But I'm asking you about how you interpret god'/s. Do you have an answer to this?

Which of course is not the same thing as actually proving it. A Nobel Prize and a shit-ton of money awaits the person who can prove gond/s. One suspec...

That's it! A bit more nuanced than my version...

I wish this were more widely recognized. A succinct formulation of a key idea.

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You'd think so. But I've heard this kind of incoherent, quasi-libertarian shit from some apologists in recent times. Next comment is usually a connect...

I think of you more as an eccentric, based on your entertaining responses.

Gosh, in my day you had provide hand relief for that result.

No, again you are wrong. :wink: The atheist says they have no reason to believe there are gods. They do not necessarily say there are no gods. I don't...

Wrong. :wink: Atheism is not a belief. It is a lack of belief. A responsible contemporary atheist is more likely to say - 'I am not convinced that god...

Do you mean people assume their answers/worldviews are correct or that everyone's individual truth is correct?

Seems a bit of a messy argument. I don't have a strong view on this topic, but this seems somewhat naïve to my eye. Perhaps defining what a war is mig...

Huh? A pretty messy syllogism. Nether premise 1 or 2 can be established. 3 does not follow from 1 or 2 and you have introduced a new item (atheism) wh...

Huh? Both happiness and suffering can be faked. Suffering especially because it is so often seen as a symbol of authenticity and worthiness. Sounds to...

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I enjoy reading these debates. @"Philosophim" is like a calmer Garrett Travers. What was it Nietzsche said - 'If you believe in grammar, you're a thei...

And if you think ultimate truth is elusive, try finding a plumber on the weekend.

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Exactly - which is why I don't make it. This seems to be a simple fallacy from personal incredulity or an appeal to common sense. There is no good evi...

An 'assumption' as you say which is an unnecessary one. Plus there's the problem with the premises I mentioned. But I enjoy these games sometimes so k...

There's a modest trick being played here with the word 'supreme'. 7 - Whatever has no limits is of supreme nature. No - you could equally say is of 'u...

I don't think so. No 2 is an assumption. 'Gap' is a metaphor - 'closing it' is another own. What we might be dealing with is a kind of information hum...

I've met many theists over the years who are idealists. They don't believe in matter. Rather like the good Bish Berkeley, they are monists.

There is almost no useful information about Jesus as a real person which could furnish us with evidence to build this kind of argument. The gospels we...

Well mainly this - if this is what you consider to be a philosophical approach - - the idea that it 'cannot actually make one happy' is not really a d...

Not sure what kind of Christian theology you dig - there are so many versions - forget that an old book says a thing, a quick look around at nature sa...

Interesting. I rarely have racing thoughts. Only when stressed. I can sit still and barely have anything going on thought wise - generally I visualize...

I think you nailed it for the most part. No one can choose to believe in something, you either are convinced or you are not convinced. Running with th...

Not at all - perhaps you don't understand his book. “Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what ...

I had to look this up. No. I don't even know what an 'action role-playing game' is... I played Monopoly a couple of times in the 1970's...

Dawkins is an altruist - he does not take the facts of nature as an ought only as an is.

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Well, clearly that's inaccurate. The world is made up of beliefs without evidence.

Yep - it would be a rash person who argues that there is a moral code embedded in nature. However, we can't infer an 'ought' from an 'is' - so just be...

He left and seems to have changed his mind about being a member. I don't know why.

Not to me, but I probably wasn't very clear there. The claim 'there is no evidence for god' is false. It's important to recognise any evidence which i...

I think the question for atheism is not the lack of evidence for god/s so much as the reliability of the evidence provided. Unfortunately personal acc...

Ok. Fair enough.

No, I literally meant what happened. Was there an argument, did he cross a line? I haven't read anything by GT for some days.

As @"Wayfarer" will tell you, there are philosophers and scientists who would say there is no evidence of physicalism. I suspect both world views in t...